The first step in making disciples is to pray that the Lord would show you a believer you could walk with, ask them to join you in following Jesus, then engage them in growing together.
We pause our study in Exodus, where the Hebrews are living in a foreign land, to focus on how we live the same way through our Be/Make/Reach initiative. To MAKE disciples is mandated by Jesus himself, and he modeled it in the Gospels as he taught the Twelve how to follow him. We too must strive to encourage and help one another as believers as disciples in our own day.
An alarmed Pharaoh tries a second tactic to curb the growth of the Hebrew nation by telling the midwives not to allow the babies to live when they are born—but the midwives fear God and will not violate His values. We must uphold the sanctity of life in the same way today.
Christians have different opinions over the significance of certain “nonessential” practices which the Scriptures neither forbid nor command. Paul helps us preserve love and unity in the Christian family by determining what is important, what is not, and how to treat each other when we disagree about issues of preference.
Governments are an authority instituted and empowered by God., and they are also accountable to God. What then is the Christian’s relationship with their government to be, as citizens of a heavenly kingdom who are ambassadors for Jesus in this world?
